Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-01-19
RELIGIOUS NOTES.


ALMosr every member of tho East Ter.
nessee Conference was once q slave.
il the United States there Is ono minis
ter 10 1a people; in India one missionary
10 $500.
FRENCH soldiers, by recent decree Of
General Boullnger, are required to rcss
from duty ON the Sab5a.a.
The Baptists of Mount Vernon, N. ".
have given the Methodists Of the same place
800 to help extinguish n debt.
THE Wittcnberg Synod, at its meeting in
Springfield, o., passed resolutions favorins
scientific temperance instruction in the pub
lie schools and colleges of the State
A PASTOR III this city, Says the Detfofs.
Christida Herald, has on the wall OF his study
in large, but not too conspicuous, letters,
for the benefit of his visitors, this Script
ural benediction: 1.-The Lord bless thy go
ings out"
A YOUNG layman, an Earl's son and an
accomplished Oriental scholar, proposes to-
establish u mission at his OWN expense
among Mohammedans in Arabia, and to be
the director of it in person. He 10 an elder
in the Free Church OF Scotland.
RECENTLY the Primo Minister OF Starr
|, and h $ sons and some young women visitetl
the Presbyterian Chapel ut Petchaburi Hu
SsAl Sf.lAG tuIpuSA thO oCINlNCf
including asermon on tho divinity of Christ,
smoking garettes and chewing bctcl. Tho
womea were intensely interested.
A GRANITE Shaft has been erected in
Greenwood Cemetery to the memory OF
Pastor Hedstrom, the founder OF Swedish
Methodism. There are now Pa Methodist
Swedish, Norwegian AMI Danish churche s
in tn 5 country AMI Europe, with 3l,5ei
members ana church property valued "
1851, ,0J0.
THE theological seminary of the Re-.
formed Episcopal Church, Philadelphia,
will consist of a seminary, chapel and n
church, the two latter fronting on Chest
nut street and the first on Forty-third
street. The cost, including the building
lots, viii be Sa5o,0O0. All the money Is
raised, one lady having given nearly $240,-
go.
PRoBArLY no verso in the English lan-
guage is so often sung as the doxology:
Praise God from Whom All Blessings
Flow This was written by Bishop Ken,
who was born in 1881, and made Bishop OF
Bath and Wells hy king Charles H. He
wrote three hymns for the Winchester
schcol-boys, beginning: "Glory to Thee,
My God, This Night;" awake, My Soul,
and with the SUM-" Lord, Now My Sleep
Doth Ne Forsake.''
GERMANY has at the present day no
small part of the missionary work of the
world. There are twelve German socie-
ties laboring in India, China, Africa, the
East Indies, Australia aud Palestine. They
are represented by 5l1 missionaries ut 3I2
stations, are employing 1850 native agents,
and have in charge lg3,915 native Chris
tians. OF these 12,0C0 are communicates,
while 40,C43 children are taught in their
I'D schools The total contribution of
these societies last year were Sl,2T6,S00.
THERE has been, it is stated, great
awakening among the Beers Dutch set
tlers) of Natal, South Africa. They have
been so busy with prayer-meetings that
the worldly have complained that they
have spoiled the antual races. The leader
among the conve, Is is Mr.. Mel, who says
he can count over two hundred in his
sparsely-scttled district who have ex-
perienced change Of heart. The work
was very quiet one, beginning without
any agency of evangelistlc meetings.
These awakened showed great anxiety for
the heathcn Kdf1irs, and many natives
have been converted